<p>I graduated from high school in 2004 with a 3.30 gpa and then went into community college, where I spent the next four years ruining my gpa. Now I am considering applying to a different community college as a freshman, rebuilding a strong gpa over the next 2 years/year and a half, and then using that transcript to apply to a four-year-university. Will the university be able to see the information/transcripts from the first school, even if I don't mention them in my application? I'm concerned about any information that may be tied to my social security number.</p>
<p>Don't do it. You never know when the colleges all may decide to do that extra check of previous schools. You'd be hosed if colleges decided some years down the road to create a national data base and exchange information with each other - it is more than feasible in this day and age.</p>
<p>Remember, colleges can rescind degrees even years after you graduate for all sorts of reasons. Fraud on your application is one of them.</p>
<p>I certainly wouldn't want that monkey on my back for the rest of my life. If you have had an upward trend in grades, most colleges will recognize this. Many of the schools you transfer to won't even use that GPA for calculating honors at graduation. </p>
<p>There's no harm, I think, in going to another community college and taking some classes to establish a new trend in grades before sending out transcripts. Talk to some counselors for advice on this!</p>
<p>do not lie on your application, you could doom yourself from ever being accepted into any kind of college. moreover its dishonest and if you are accepted into a school after you lied on your application, you may have just taken the spot of somebody else who deserved it more...</p>
<p>if youve already been to college, why would you want to go for another 4 years? i really think that is a bit of a stretch to go get another BA just so you maybe could get a more prestigious name on your diploma, not worth the money unless you go to an alternative school for people in your kind of situation...most schools do not have double BA programs i dont think, although a few i know of do...but really, after four years of cc you want to go back for another 2 years (6 years of community college?!) so you could make up for your poor performance...if you could go straight into a decent school it could potentially be worth the hefty investment, but having to go back to cc before you transfer makes it a really weird path</p>